What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault. Mr. Fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch. Only then did I realize that he had unbuckled his belt, unzipped his pants, and taken out his penis. He then forced his penis into my mouth. Utterly shocked and terrified, I tried to move my head away, but could not because his hand was holding down my neck and he was much stronger than me. As I cried and gagged, Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual.

Tyson also claims that she told friends in December 2017, including a friend of hers that works at The Washington Post.

A colleague of Tyson’s at Stanford, Jennifer Freyd, told the Bay Area News Group that Tyson told her and a couple others about the alleged 2004 encounter last fall.

This controversy is only one of a few currently surrounding the Virginia legislature. Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam made remarks last week about a bill changing the state’s abortion laws that received backlash.

Days later, a photo surfaced from his 1984 medical school yearbook that showed a photo of two people, one of them wearing KKK garb and another dressed in blackface. Northam initially accepted responsibility for the photo, only to say later that it wasn’t him.